Best 132 quotes in «anxious quotes» category

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

Even if you yourself were unhappy and anxious, whenever you glimpsed happiness in your child, you suddenly became happy too.

Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it.

Filmmakers are anxious about what other people are working on.

Even speed, when we are anxious, seems like delay.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.

I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.

Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can't control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I'm just not going to go outside the house. I'm going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

If your compliments are making women feel uncomfortable, scared, anxious, annoyed or harassed, you're probably not doing them right.

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

I get more anxious than nervous before a concert.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)

Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things - you feel that after death, you will be no more.

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting so much pressure on yourself, but I've really learned that all the experiences we have you can bring into the next job. So it's making sure your brain and body are being stimulated so you can bring something new to the next role.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.